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One of the most important discoveries relating to current was made accidentally by Hans Christian Ørsted in 1820, when, while preparing a lecture, he witnessed the current in a wire disturbing the needle of a magnetic compass.
For instance, when measuring the position of an electron, one imagines shining a light on it, thus disturbing the electron and producing the quantum mechanical uncertainties in its position.
This brings some risks, however, as antidepressants can induce mania, psychosis, and other disturbing problems in bipolar patients — in particular, when taken alone, but sometimes even when used with a mood stabilizer.
It is characterised by its stocky and muscular build, black fur, pungent odour, extremely loud and disturbing screech, keen sense of smell, and ferocity when feeding.
* 1075: the Investiture Controversy is sparked when Pope Gregory VII asserted in the Dictatus papae extended rights granted to the pope ( disturbing the balance of power ) and new interpretation of God's role in founding the Church itself.
* September 19 – Police in the West Midlands of England launch a massive murder hunt, when 13-year-old newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a burglary.
The latter form can be commonly seen in a form of Internet meme which goes by the phrase when you see it, you will shit bricks, used in connection with an image of a busy scene with an often unnoticed laughing face or disturbing object which is hard to see until you study the picture.
" Pierre Barousse, the Keeper of the Musée Ingres, has written: The case of Ingres is certainly disturbing when one realizes in how many ways a variety of artists claim him as their master, from the most plainly conventional of the nineteenth century such as Cabanel or Bouguereau, to the most revolutionary of our century from Matisse to Picasso.
A more sympathetic serial murderer appears in the later novel The Count of Eleven ( 1991 ), which displays Campbell's gift for word play, and which the author has said is disturbing " because it doesn't stop being funny when you think it should ".
The first known use of the word to denote a room was in medieval Christian Europe, when it designated the two rooms in a monastery where clergy, constrained by vow or regulation from speaking otherwise in the cloister, were allowed to converse without disturbing their fellows.
Tourism operators also must comply with speed limits when traveling to or from tourist destinations, in order to prevent excessive wake from the boats disturbing the reef ecosystem.
Later, when the railroad bought out the right of way, the noise and dust became disturbing and many houses became run down and neglected.
The Scoobies are given another disturbing glimpse in Giles ' past when, along with every other adult in Sunnydale, he reverts to being a teenager by enchanted band candy supplied by Ethan Rayne.
Presentation of issues that are difficult or disturbing for an audience, can be made more acceptable when they are explored in a future setting or on a different, earth-like world.
He writes: " My purpose was partly to have placed some of the most important instruments securely and firmly in order that they should not be exposed to the disturbing influence of the wind, and should be easier to use, partly to separate my collaborators when there were several with me at the same time, and have some of them make observations in the castle itself, others in these cellars, in order that they should not get in the way of each other or compare their observations before I wanted this.
Many people find mannequins disturbing ( due in part perhaps to the uncanny valley effect ), especially when not fully assembled.
He was arrested for disturbing the peace when he performed the routine at a show at Summerfest in Milwaukee.
Very few scenes in the movies are graphically bloody, making such scenes more disturbing when they occur.
In addition, because of the potential fragility of the wreck, the likelihood of disturbing sediments or disturbing the many marine animals that take advantage of the artificial habitat offered by the wreck, extra care is required when moving and finning.
In irrigated agriculture, it may be recommended to: apply gypsum ( calcium sulfate ) to displace sodium cations with calcium and so reduce ESP or sodicity ; avoid rapid wetting, and ; avoid disturbing soils when too wet or dry.
The first conviction for obscenity in England occurred in 1727, when Edmund Curll was fined for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock under the common law offence of disturbing the King's peace.
This mucous envelope may also act as an early warning system, allowing the parrotfish to flee when it detects predators such as moray eels disturbing the protective membrane.

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Morris himself delivered disturbing monologues, one of which was revamped and made into the BAFTA-winning short film, My Wrongs # 8245 – 8249 & 117.
While humans are allowed to swim with manatees in one area of Florida, there have been numerous charges of people harassing and disturbing the manatees.
Peckinpah was forced to do a 180-degree turn and traveled to England to direct Straw Dogs ( 1971 ), one of his darkest and most psychologically disturbing films.
" Persse listened to this stream of filth flowing from between Angelica's exquisite lips and pearly teeth with growing astonishment and burning cheeks, but no one else in the audience seemed to find anything remarkable or disturbing about her presentation '.
They characterised element of reality as a quantity whose value can be predicted with certainty before measuring or otherwise disturbing it, and defined a complete physical theory as one in which every element of physical reality is accounted for by the theory.
Unemployment became widespread, wages and prices dropped and bankruptcies followed one another In disturbing sequence.
The most disturbing part of the Harper's cover story ( the one by Chris Hedges ) was the attempt to link Christian conservatives with Hitler and fascism.
The most disturbing of those ceramics ( one that Picasso might have already seen at Vollard's ) was the gruesome Oviri.
Louise Bogan, writing for Nation, surmised that while " the book's great beauties, its wonderful passages of wit, its variety, its mark of genius and immense learning are undeniable [...], to read the book over a long period of time gives one the impression of watching intemperance become addiction, become debauch " and argued that " Joyce's delight in reducing man's learning, passion, and religion to a hash is also disturbing.
The Room was about a criminally insane man locked up in one room in a prison who reminisces about his disturbing past.
Baldwin IV was educated by the historian William of Tyre ( later Archbishop of Tyre and Chancellor of the kingdom ), who made a disturbing discovery about the prince: he and his friends were playing one day, attempting to injure each other by driving their fingernails into each other's arms, but Baldwin felt no pain.
In the end, with the inexorability of genuine tragedy, she can only stand by, stunned and unbelieving, as Jessie quietly closes and locks her bedroom door and ends her profound unhappiness in one fatal, stunning and deeply disturbing moment — a moment never to be forgotten by those who have witnessed, and come to understand, her plight.
John Plamenatz in his critical examination of Rousseau's work considered that conscience was there defined as the feeling that urges us, in spite of contrary passions, towards two harmonies: the one within our minds and between our passions, and the other within society and between its members ; " the weakest can appeal to it in the strongest, and the appeal, though often unsuccessful, is always disturbing.
Also, defects disturbing other glycosylation pathways than the N-linked one are included in this classification.
D ' Enghien was found guilty of being in violation of Article 2 of a law of 6 October 1791, to wit, " Any conspiracy and plot aimed at disturbing the State by civil war, and arming the citizens against one another, or against lawful authority, will be punished by death.
It is important to understand that in real populations, one or more of these " disturbing influences " are always in effect.
*" If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it -- the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.
Li ' l Abner featured a whole menagerie of allegorical animals over the years — each one was designed to satirically showcase another disturbing aspect of human nature.
Both the novella and the 1982 adaptation contain one of the most chilling, disturbing, and ( for some audiences ) repulsive scenes: a Thing-dog caught in mid-transformation.
Many met with indifferent success or none, at least on their first presentations during Franck's lifetime ; but the Quintet of 1879 ( one of Saint-Saëns's particular dislikes ) had proven itself an attention-getting and thought-provoking work ( critics described it as having " disturbing vitality " and an " almost theatrical grimness ").
The Governments of Peru and Ecuador solemnly affirm their resolute intention of maintaining between the two peoples relations of peace and friendship, of understanding and good faith and of abstaining, the one with respect to the other, from any action capable of disturbing such relations.
* Interpretation of a Dream — A man experiences disturbing and serial dreams of falling from the thirty-ninth story of the skyscraper in which he works, passing one story every night.

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